Word: peopleism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Friedan bridles at the suggestion that she is a feminist; she switches her head and pounds her small fist on the table at the idea. "We haven't passed into a new kind of feminism," she corrected the WHRB interviewer impatiently. "Call it peopleism." She is a turnerr of pharases, a master at epigrams, but not a consistent thinker. The chapters of her book have catchy titles: "The Sexual Solipsism of Sigmund Freud," "The Functional Freeze, the Feminine Portest, and Margaret Mead," "The Sexual Sell," and "Housewifery Expands to Fill the Time Available...
...will not be an easy road to find. Smothered under the blanket of Lyndon Johnson's father-of-all-the-peopleism, the G.O.P. is statistically so far behind that many years may go by before it gets its head up. Top Republicans talk publicly of picking up 40 House seats next year; they would happily settle for 20, which would bring the Democrats down to a still overwhelming majority of 275 to 160. Only by a turnover that surpasses imagination could the G.O.P. gain a bare majority of the Senate; Republicans would have to beat all 19 Democratic Senators...
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